OK ~ i was able to get the bp 1.2 default running perfectly using a subdirectory install with the current wp trunk I am using multi-site ~ with only one modification –
Make sure your rewrite base for .htaccess is correct in your root and these are also correct.
$base = '/~david/your_root/';
define('DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE', '127.0.0.1' );
define('PATH_CURRENT_SITE', '/~david/your_root/' );
..and then add this to you wp-config pointing to your subdirectory wp-content
define( 'WP_CONTENT_URL', 'http://127.0.0.1/~david/test/whatever_your_subdirectory_is/wp-content');
It is set correctly on the wordpress admin side but buddypress displays a different time. What does buddypress use for time zone on sent messages?
example:
time set in worpress admin = 10:43 AM
in buddypress sent message box = 7:43 am
in buddypress = Message sent successfully! Sent 8 hours ago (!!??!!??)
[wordpress 2.9.1 + buddypress2.1-rc]
@Andy: In previous trunk versions I was able to use both a home.php template (/) and an index.php template (/blog/) but now I get a 404 when I go to /blog/.
Explanation: My theme is set up so home.php uses a custom query to show all posts tagged with the most recently added tag in a custom taxonomy (i.e. taxonomy “issues”, tag “Winter 2010 Issue”) while index.php is a normal WordPress homepage loop returning a paginated result set of all posts by date. This doesn’t work anymore since /blog/ (index.php) returns a 404.
I installed wordpress in a /wordpress sub-directory way back when. My .htaccess file is in the web root:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
and it points to index.php in the same web root. Inside that index.php is:
/** Loads the WordPress Environment and Template */
require(‘./wordpress/wp-blog-header.php’);
So it has always worked up until I installed BP 1.2-rc.
BP works ok but the links at the top pointed to http://domain.com/wordpress/activity instead of http://domain.com/activity, etc.
I hard coded those to work but all the social links (permalinks, profiles, groups, etc) all use the wordpress slug.
Is there a way to rewrite site_url() to remove the wordpress slug or some other way?
Thanks!
@Everyone: Thank you so much for the replies but I’m not sure the issue is being understood. The issue is the template hierarchy not working as it should. Without changing anything in your reading settings home.php should be used for the homepage and index.php should be used for the /blog/ slug. That no longer works.
@Mike: I was trying to change the slug since /blog/ no longer works. It worked before. / used home.php and /blog/ used index.php and both had functioning loops that returned posts.
@MrMaz: That works to change the homepage but the template hierarchy seems broken (see above). I can set up the homepage to manually use a page with home.php assigned as it’s template and then I can actually link to /blog/ and it WILL use index.php (yay)… but the only posts the loop returns i.e… if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); is the page you’re on since (I’m guessing) /blog/ is not longer considered a home page.
Perhaps I need to have TWO custom queries? That may be the solution. Use my custom query for the homepage (however that is set and using either home.php or index.php… all irrelevant)… and then a custom template assigned to whatever page I want (maybe a page called Archives) that uses a custom query to return all posts from the database (i.e. so the loop results won’t be based on the slug… but on your custom query). Seems like a few hoops to go though. Worked fine before simply by using the WordPress template heirarchy and / and /blog/. As long as I can get it working though… it’s all good.
@foralien: It’s a root install.
I installed Buddypress 1.2 release candidate on a new WordPress 2.9.1 install and everything is working great except for the forum.
When I install the forum (using the “one click” feature in WP Admin panel) it says it installed correctly, but on the site the “Forum” link is broken. Check it out: http://www.chengduconnect.com
Any ideas on how to get this working? I tried reinstalling the forum and searching here and on google but couldn’t find much about the 1.2 release candidate in particular. Thanks!
PS: Your classifieds-plugin breaks on my install the ajaxed-navigation in BP… hmmm.
Some other strange stuff: The title in the wordpress-repository is wrong “real names”…
I think I wait, until xou think it is more or less stable…
Hope it will work…
PJParticipant
A lot of the plugins in the BP directory http://buddypress.org/extend/plugins/ don’t work in 1.2. How can the plugin creators or the buddypress.org site add a 1.2 Yes compatibility check (as we see in the WordPress Plugin directory).
Thanks.
Ya that doesn’t work. I get a “bloggyblog” page of course… but it’s just a page using single.php. And if I assign index.php to it as a custom template the loop doesn’t work. Which I don’t quite understand. It’s the standard WordPress loop.
Yah… SSH command line stuff is a dream. LOL. Especially for someone who is a designer first and a coder second :o)
So you mean create a WordPress “Page” called blog (and make sure it’s slug is ‘blog’)? I had tried using my index.php file as a template that I assigned to a page… but the loop didn’t work.
It is weird tho’. In pervious versions of BuddyPress… you could go to /blog/
I think the bP Geo plugin is a farce. I have tried multiple times to contact the dev team there to no avail. They even go so far as to claim to be sponsored by Automattic. Seems doubtful. They are nowhere on this forum and no one has been able to get their plugin to work.Call me suspicious. You are better off trying @jjj’s plugin https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-member-map/ He is a living, breathing person as opposed to the aforementioned dev team
Hi
Thanks for getting back to me. I had initially installed a pack option (supplied by my hosting service) which installed both wordpress mu and buddy press but did not install properly me thinks. So I installed the wordpress mu and then the buddypress plugin. Now templates working fine except I cant seem to get the default buddypress template and the Avenue K9 one seems to be broken (have downloaded and installed many times…no luck). So where can I find the defualt template to install…cause it doesn’t come up in the theme search (nor does Avenue K9)
Thanks
I’d go with windhamdavid’s method, since I did use the guide that Symm2112 posted before.
On that post’s comments, I list a potential problem with categories and custom taxonomies that you might encounter.
Hi
I have just installed Buddypress and went to view the the site and showed the default wordpress theme. I then switched the theme to the buddypress default theme (making sure it was activated in both places) and the site is just a blank page.
I have added nothing to it it and remains a clean install. You can see what I am seeing at http://www.smark-it.com
Please can some one help
I found that there were a few spots that I needed to change mem limit to import but ok. I used this tutorial to import my install. you have to remember that you’re not importing into Buddypress, you’re importing into wordpress or wordpress MU. Buddypress is just a plugin, not a platform. It ADDS the social features to your wordpress installation.
http://welcome.totheinter.net/2008/10/04/how-to-migrate-from-wordpress-to-wordpress-mu/
an alternative method if you can’t increase your php memory limit is to grab this plugin and then import/export in chunks by date range.
Sorry. I’m frustrated beyond belief at the moment. Deadline tomorrow. Broken site.
Question
Does the change mentioned in this thread remove support from the WordPress template hierarchy for using BOTH a home.php (standard template that’s part of the WordPress hierarchy) and an index.php file? Because I require both.
I need to reopen this thread to ask the group what I need to do when the Buddypress Import feature experiences a php memory failure halfway through the import.
I was just importing the xml file and got to around 90 posts (I have over 500), then it crapped out.
I updated the php.ini file in wp-admin for 128M, but I don’t think changing it to that high a setting on 1and1 helps at all. They state they have a max of 40, but I think they just put that out there and you can actually go over the limit, but I’m not sure.
I know how to dump my mysql file from my WordPress database on my host. I’m just not sure what would happen if I imported the database from a general WordPress install to the database for a BuddyPress install.
Here’s what I’m seeing after trying it twice. I see that it see the posts I’ve already added.
88 Importing attachment http://netmix.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2006/01/jam_markspoon1.jpg... (30 kB)
89 Post Jam & Spoon's Mark Spoon Passes On already exists.
90 Post Larry Heard's "Can You Feel It" vs. Martin Luther King's "I Have A Dream" Speech already exists.
Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 33554432) (tried to allocate 524297 bytes) in /homepages/7/d106361195/htdocs/netmix_home/wpmu/wp-admin/import/wordpress.php on line 143
Anyone suggest and links that can help?
You installed bbPress in your WordPress plugins directory which shouldn’t be done.
Either let BuddyPress install bbPress for you or install bbPress in it’s own directory.
I am running the latest version of BuddyPress and WordPress MU.
Has anyone had any experience with Cincopa Galleries or their WP plugin?
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/post-rich-videos-and-photos-galleries/
As I design my site, one of the challenges ahead is a good media gallery. There are of course many WP plugins, but I think I will have differing requirements.
- User uploading of photos from front end (does NextGen Gallery do this?)
- Categorization of photos by context, user, group
- Hosted outside my wimpy server (AWS or similar)
- No violation of Youtube, Flickr or other terms of service (i.e. commercial usage and letting users add to my account)
- User-selectable skins (e.g. for group or profile pages)
If someone has a great solution, I’m game, but I haven’t found that. As with most things these days, I’m thinking of butchering up someone else’s work to create my own (like my Hybrid, BP, Hybrid News theme).
My idea:
- Start with Cincopa plugin above
- Use their API to let logged-in users/group admins add content from their profile page/menu http://www.cincopa.com/Developer/start.aspx#kits
- Create sitewide galleries that pull from different categories, groups for central slideshows/video gallery
- Swallow the $50/year to get the pro account (5GB, 7GB transfer/mo.). That should be enough for awhile considering I’ll already have Vodpod, Youtube for my own content
- Release plugin as affiliate to get money from Cincopa if it’s good enough
Thoughts? Pre-Existing/Planned Solutions? Offers of help!?!?!?!?!
Ok, this is a serious problem. I’m experiencing essentially the same thing. We’re running BP 1.1.3 and just upgraded form WPMU 2.8.6 to 2.9.1 . But as soon as I finished upgrading the entire site (including all the blogs), I went to the front page and everything is shown exactly 6 hours older than it really is.
See here: http://jibenow.com/
I’ve done some digging around and this is what I’ve found so far: https://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic/16374
I’ll be giving it a shot and see if I can make a simple hack like they mentioned.
These aren’t BuddyPress questions. Look on the WordPress and WordPress MU websites and forums.
1) BuddyPress 1.2 will be compatible with WordPress and WordPress MU. It will be out soon.
2) Don’t resurrect 9 month old threads
When submitting a post, the author name is not displaying the nickname or the display name. Under wordpress admin edit posts listing, it does show bptestuser as the author but on the frontpage, it shows as admin.
wordpress setting:
username = admin, Nickname (required) = bptestuser, Display name publicly as = bptestuser
[wordpress 2.9.1 + buddypress1.2-rc]